Henry C. Blanchard

@DefenderOfBasic i voted thumbs up, but in a "thumbs up, you should def do this and it's fine" fashion

is it weird / rude to have a "tiered wedding invite" thing (like invite 300 people to come to a more open day 0 & day 1 event, and only 120 can fit into the ceremony event)

I'm really surprised (as ex-big4 who never did much 'real' accountancy work for soletraders/smbs) just how feeble the enforcement options seem to be for HMRC. Firms/individuals seem to be able to phoenix themselves to avoid fines/oversight, and consequences/recourse against those falsely claiming chartership are pretty limited. In a way, surprising we don't see *more* of this!

Yesterday an Oxford accountancy firm gave us 24 hours to take down an article which said they'd knowingly filed false tax returns. Today they're sending bizarre emails saying I have to give them my phone number or they will "get it from Government".

Claude Mythos - $25/$125 per million input/output tokens confirmed. SWE-bench-verified benchmark: Is software cooked?

@Malcolm_Offord I disagree with many of reform’s policies but I’ve liked this because you’re right about the perverse incentives in the uk tax system, and I hope parties in power tackle this soon.

My ambition for Scotland is to restore the fundamental incentive to work, allowing people to earn higher incomes, and to build wealth for themselves, their families, and communities. That’s why we plan to cut Scottish income taxes below England's, making it the best place in the UK to live and work. But just as important is removing the complex cliff edges in the system, which are stifling all incentive to work and so are harming public services too. For example, someone looking after a loved one at home and receiving both the Carer Support Payment and Scottish Carer Supplement while doing a part-time job, if their wages rise above £10,608 per year will suddenly lose £5,100 in benefits withdrawn. Or take a police sergeant with children. If they or their partner earns above £60k, they start seeing their child benefit clawed back, and when working overtime end up keeping less than half of every extra pound they earn. Or take a doctor who still has a student maintenance loan to repay, who gets a raise above £100k. Suddenly, for every extra £1 they earn they get to take home less than 22p – before even taking into account their pension contributions. If they have a working partner and nursery-age children, then taking the raise actually makes them worse off by thousands of pounds, because tax-free childcare is suddenly withdrawn. With punishing cliff edges like these, is it any wonder that GP practices close their lists, experienced doctors retire early, dentists reduce NHS work, schools struggle to hire, and hospitals struggle to fill shifts, leaving wards understaffed and theatres empty despite long waiting lists? Fundamental to any workforce plan for fixing our public sector is getting the incentives right, and ensuring that workers have more money in their pockets at the end of a shift. Making sure that workers are rewarded is the most important lever we can pull to improve hiring, retention, and morale. Otherwise we’d be stuck with the same old story we've seen for years: throwing more funding at public sector raises, raising taxes to pay for it, and so taxing it back off those very same workers again while failing to fix the underlying problem. In the meantime, the private sector bears the burden, and faces many of the same productivity problems. A Reform government in Scotland will do everything it can with devolved powers to smooth away these damaging cliff edges as quickly as possible, so that earning an extra £1 always means keeping at least 50p of it. We will do everything we can to ensure that work always pays, and that you’re always rewarded for working an extra shift. For a Scotland that respects and rewards work, the only choice is Reform UK.

@MPrinParr @SebJohnsonUK All the best people are!

@SebJohnsonUK didn’t know he was a Notts man!

Be Philip Johnston: > Born in Guildford, UK > Spends part of childhood in South Africa > Study Maths at University of Nottingham > Graduate top of class, joins Mensa > Start career in high-frequency trading > Moves into VC for a bit > Joins McKinsey working on satellite and space-sector > Leave to Cofound e-commerce aggregator Opontia > Raise $20m seed > Raise $42m Series A > Company gets acquired in 2023 > Starts thinking about the AI compute bottleneck > Realises Earth data centres face two limits: energy + cooling > Launches space-compute startup Starcloud (initially Lumen Orbit) > Joins YC > Raises $21m seed from top investors > Launches Starcloud-1 satellite > Sends an NVIDIA H100 GPU into orbit > Successfully trains an AI model in space > Becomes a unicorn I've been following Philip on LinkedIn and X for a while and he has FREQUENTLY been told his idea is ridiculous, stupid and never going to work. The best founders push through and prove everyone wrong, and Philip is doing just that. NICE @PhilipJohnston

@PhilipJohnston @Starcloud_ @nvidia There he is!! Massive congrats. Excited to hear people say “but no one knows how cooling them will work?!!11¡?” as fresh clean tokens pour down from LEO

I am super excited to share that @Starcloud_ has raised a $170M Series A at a $1.1bn valuation to fuel our development of data centers in space 🚀 The round comes after the successful deployment of our first satellite, Starcould-1, a few months ago, which had the first @NVIDIA H100 on board and was the first to train an LLM in space. The funds will be used to develop our third satellite, which aims to be cost-competitive with Earth-based data centers in terms of AI inference cost. The round was led by @Benchmark and @EQT Ventures, and we are excited to welcome Benchmark GP, @Chetanp Puttagunta, to our board. We are also excited to welcome other new investors, including the world's largest infrastructure fund, @Macquarie Capital, @SevenSevenSix 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣, Manhattan West, Adjacent, Carya, GSBackers, and Harpoon. We are very grateful for the continued support of existing investors, including @NFX, @NebularVC, @YCombinator, @FUSE_VC, @Soma_Capital, 3Capital Partners, Wyld VC, Tiny VC, and Taurus Ventures. Onwards!

Qwen 9b has absolutely no chill. Overthinking like a 15yo trying to text their crush

@tunguz it's doubtful you were aware of my awesomness... until now. but here I am! (phew)

gm if you can reply to this you are awesome

@robkhenderson I so rarely see this recommended, but agree: 10/10. the easter egg about 'roswell high' indicating maybe the whole dinner was already shifted from the start was great - did you catch it? (also r.i.p nicholas Brendon who passed away last week)

Coherence (2013)

@WorkflowWhisper Playbook

I built 31 automations for clients last year. Every single business - from solo founders to 50-person teams - needed some version of the same workflows. So I documented all of them. Every workflow. Every department. And the exact plain-English prompt that builds each one in minutes. Sales & CRM: lead capture, follow-up sequences, deal tracking, proposal generation, pipeline alerts Marketing: social scheduling, email sequences, content repurposing, UTM tracking, review requests Operations: invoice generation, payment reminders, inventory alerts, automated reporting Customer Success: onboarding emails, NPS surveys, churn detection, support routing Admin: meeting scheduling, expense tracking, document generation, approval workflows Each one includes the specific prompt I use to build it - not vague instructions, the actual sentence I type. Plus which 3 to start with if you want to save 10+ hours/week immediately. Comment "PLAYBOOK" and I'll DM you the full PDF for free.

@TJiMTS haha me too!!

My life cycle atm: -Spend all night/early morning bookmarking interesting claude/openclaw/AI things -Spend all day implementing the bookmarks

@DaveShapi i use @launchlemonade - you can do exactly this and use any model in any combo - $25/m plus loads of other features

Thinking of upgrading to Perplexity Max for the LM Council implementation. Apparently they are building an OpenClaw as well. Anyone recommend it?

@toddsaunders so cool - would love to share it with my students!

This one was very fun to build. /investor-pitch - a Claude Code skill that builds extremely compelling and beautiful investor decks, and a list of investors most likely to invest. Here's how it works: 1/ Scans your codebase and .claude file to fully understand your project 2/ Contextualizes the project with 14 blog posts I found interesting from A16Z, Insight, YC, Thoma Bravo, Founders Fund and Sequoia 3/ Looks at valuation data I gave it from 2026 and recent startup news to give you round fundamentals and valuation expectations 4/ Compares project to other companies using an export from Exa API I gave it 5/ Builds a deck, elevator pitch and TAM analysis for 3 different investor types based on outcome expectations (PE, VCs, and Angels). 6/ Recommends specific investors for you to reach out to and detailed answers for a YC application I'm still working on this, but I'm blown away by the output so far. Happy to share the the markdown file when done!

@archivepilled desperate to know Mr/Mrs.16688...'s story

Introducing: Number Research Inc. At Number Research Inc., we are attempting to find and document all* available numbers. This is a volunteer-lead research position, where anyone is able to contribute. Simply type a number in, and we'll check if we've got it. If we have, no worries, just try another. If it is a new number, then thank you for your hard work!

@snewmanpv lol i opened that image file in a new tab like 4 times and was so confused 😂 great analysis tho

Oops forgot the link! secondthoughts.ai/p/45-thoughts-…

My most-liked post ever was a grab-bag of ideas about AI. Here's a similar post about the layer of the AI stack that's evolving most rapidly: agents. The closing thought: things will never be calm again. The next phase change will arrive before you’ve assimilated this one.

@tomosman literally me and @Kirsty_Hulse had this chat the other week, just before I set up the mac mini in our office. make or break year. to valhalla. date nights cancelled until Claude Opus 6 😂

The May 2021 "lock in" discussion was just had with my wife. This time the difference is, the opportunity is orders of magnitude bigger. Pass acquired to rip it to Valhalla or bust. Let's go.

Oh wow.

a few years ago I was behind one grungy looking young australian lad at passport control, queueing to get out. He was young and probably a touch naive. Two plainclothes approach him and have a friendly chat - 'where have you been, what have you been up to'.. he starts talking about the west bank and i'm thinking 'oh buddy.. you are not making your flight 😂'

Raise your hand if you were ever heavily questioned by El Al security. 🙋🏽‍♂️

@k17ubha Used o3 to do mine last year. Caveats: I’m an ex-accountant and could spot any errors it would make (made a couple of small ones, offered a useful insight I hadn’t thought of) Based in the UK. I hear US taxes are a different beast.

has anyone used claude to file their taxes yet

i think it's pretty useless on a vps - I've got one on hostinger running opus 4.6, and one on kimi claw and aside from cron jobs and chatting via telegram & whatsapp i'm not seeing a huge amount of improvement over ragging CC on the max plan. But, it could also to be a skill issue. 😂

I don't use a calendar I don't buy groceries I don't have friends to respond to I use CC myself all day to build an actual app with actual users Why do I need OpenClaw-- I actually want to know